Some people think Aspartame (aka Nutrasweet) causes serious health problems. I just did a whack of research about this tasty substance, which Donald Rumsfeld once saved after the FDA tried to nix it.
I think there's reason to say you might want to avoid ingesting lots of the stuff, especially if you're pregnant.
Specifically, its approval was done in a very shady and political manner, way back in the Reagan era. Also, it is claimed that almost all of the research that wasn't funded by industry found indications of health problems.
My research was in the context of a very interesting sub-tread of another diary on a completely different subject.
Here it is.
I'm making a diary of it for two reasons:
- I've have debunked... or at least substantially undermined... Snopes, and it's fun to share that.
- It would be a pity to let this info languish unread when it could (cough cough) maybe (who knows?) save lives.